RIP Greg Lutz, MD

[drusso]

We say Goodbye to a pioneer and leader in interventional spine, pain, and regenerative medicine.

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[jsaul]

Oh man what happened?I interviewed with him back in the day. Really nice guy and really gave PMR some cred in nyc and HSS. He will be missed.

 

[Agast]

Seems very young

 

[Dr. Ice]

Some type of cancer I believe

 

[Ducttape]

yes very young at 65.

 

[jsaul]

It always worries me when our mentors die of CA inn their 60s

 

[lobelsteve]

It always worries me when our mentors die of CA inn their 60s

Regen guys at that

 

[Doctodd]

wow.....i need to fish more and work less

 

[jsaul]

My fear of radiation exposure has led me to stop scs treatments 7 years ago

 

[SSdoc33]

My fear of radiation exposure has led me to stop scs treatments 7 years ago

my fear of SCS patients led me to stop SCS treatments

 

[clubdeac]

Cut out SCS and MILD and now collimate way down for every pic. Also cut my procedure days down from 5 days/ week to 3. Hopefully it’s not too late

 

[BobBarker]

We get a lot less fluoro exposure than EP and IR.

 

[Doctodd]

We get a lot less fluoro exposure than EP and IR.

a TON less......they fluoro for an hour on some patients. Our basic procedures are 3-5 seconds.

 

[KateFan]

We're all exposed, some more than others. Whether you take IR NA (and good luck finding it, most of what is out there is tainted w/ -mide) to counteract the thermodynamic burden is up to you...

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Impact of Nuclear De Novo NAD+ Synthesis via Histone Dynamics on DNA Repair during Cellular Senescence To Prevent Tumorigenesis - PubMed

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[NJPAIN]

Some type of cancer I believe

I could swear that I saw it mentioned somewhere that he died “climbing “.